Improvement in machines for tilling land by steam



J. FOWLER, 'Jn, & W. WORBY.

Steam-Plow.

" Patented July 9, 1861.

NITED STATES PATENT OPEIcE.

JOHN EOwLEE, .In, HAVERING, COUNTY OF MInnLEsEX, AND WM. WORRY, OFIPswIcH, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ENGLAND, AssIGNOEs TO WM. PENN TATHAM, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR TELLING LAND BY STEAM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. $1,@ll dated July 9,1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN FOWLER, J r. of Havering, in the county ofMiddleseX, England, and WILLIAM W'ORBY, of Ipswich, in the county ofSuffolk, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachinery for Plowing and Tilling Land by Steam; and we do herebydeclare that the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 3 is anelevation.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

Our said invention relates to that class of machinery for plowing andtilling land by steam in which a locomotive steam-engine moves at givenintervals along one edge of the field, and ropes pass from the engine toand around a pulley in a carriage termed an anchor, which is moved atintervals along Fig. 2 is an end view.

the opposite edge of the field, the said ropes from the engine beingattached to plows or other tillinginstruments to draw them across thefield alternately in opposite directions.

Our said invention consists in mounting the anchoring-carriage on disksor wheels sufficiently thin at the periphery to enable them to cut intothe ground, and thus present the required resistance to the strain orpull of the rope drawing the plows or other tilling-instruments.

In the accompanying drawings, a 64 a a is the body of the carriage,having a bottom and four sides, like a cart or truck. In place of beingmounted on ordinary wheels, it is mounted on the four disks b b b b,which cut into the land and sink therein until the weight of the thecarriage is taken by the rollers c c, which are mounted on the same axisas the disks. (1 is the pulley, which turns on an axis firmly fixed inthe bottom of the carriage. e is the roller for guiding the rope. f is abar passing the whole length of the anchoring-carriage and fixedthereto. This bar has an eye at each end, to which a rope or chain maybe attached when it is necessary to move the anchoring-carriage. \Vhenthe anchoring-carriage is in use, it may be loaded with earth or othermaterial to give it sufficient weight.

It will be seen that the anchoring-carriage can be moved forward orbackward easily, but cuts into the land a sufficient depth to presentthe required resistance to the lateral pull of the rope in drawing theplows or other filling-instruments.

Having thus pointed out the mode of application of our said invention,which we have worked with success, we do not wish to be considered aslimiting our claim of invention to such mode of application, as otherand equivalent modes may be substituted without deviating from theprinciple of our said invention.

\Vhat we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

Mounting an anchoring-carriage on disks or wheels sufficiently thin atthe periphery to cut or sink into the land, substantially as hereindescribed.

JOHN EOwLEa, JR. WM. woEEY.

Vitnesses:

ROET. WM. EDnIsoN, ALEXR. THOMsoN.

